The
Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? (Buffalo:
Prometheus Books, 1992). Named 1992 Book of the Year by the American Society of Criminology Division of International
Criminology.
Review by
Nicholas Johnson, Public Interest Law Review.
Review by
the Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

Gun
Control in Great Britain: Saving Lives or Constricting Liberty?
(Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, Office of International Criminal
Justice, 1992).

The Highbrow in American Politics: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Role of
the Intellectual in Politics. Honors Thesis in History, Brown University,
May 1982. Awarded Highest Honors, and National Geographic Society Prize.

And Justice for Some: The Reagan Administration and the Rule of Law in
America. Co-author of report issued by the National Organization of Law
Students and Professors for Responsible Government, Oct. 1984.

Human Rights and Gun
Confiscation. 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 383 (2008). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights
abuses in gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South
Africa's quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most
complete collection ever presented of international survey data about
why people in various countries own guns.

The Evolving Police Power: Some Observations for a New Century. 27 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 511 (2000).
With Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Analyzes recent state court
decisions striking down anti-sodomy laws, and suggests that courts in the 21st
century—like courts in the 19th century—may increasingly recognize that the
police power is not infinite. Also available in
Word format.

Self-Defense: The Equalizer. 15 Forum for Applied Research and Public
Policy 92 (No. 4, Winter 2000). Survey of gun control polices and results in
Japan, Britain, Canada, and Australia. With Linda Gorman.
PDF version. Alternate
version in HTML.

Poisoned Milk and the Poisoning of Democracy: Some Cautions about China
Trade and Taiwan Sovereignty. Presented at the symposium "Taiwan's
New Approach: Opportunities and Challenges for President Ma Ying-jeou's
Government." International House, University of Chicago, October 24, 2008.

Taiwan's Presidential Elections: An Analysis of What Happened, and What May Happen Next.
Independence Institute Issue Paper 3-2008. April 2008.
Examining how KMT candidate Ma
Ying-Jeou won the election in part because of his strong defense of Taiwan's
sovereignty and his appeal to Taiwan's growing national consciousness. The Issue
Paper also analyzes the two referenda on UN membership.

Human Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation
in East Africa. With Paul Gallant and Joanne Eisen.
How U.N.-backed gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda have led
to murder, torture, and arson, and have turned tens of thousands of
pastoral tribespeople into starving refugees. Independence Institute Issue Backgrounder
no. 2006-F. June 2006. In PDF. In
HTML.

The New
McCarthyism: Restricting Constitutional Rights Based on Mere Suspicion.
Independence Institute Issue Backgrounder, no. 2005-B. June 2005. Analysis of
proposals to use the "no-fly list" or other suspicion-based lists as a basis for
prohibiting the exercise of Second Amendment rights. Alternate version in
HTML.

Book review: One Nation Under Guns: an Essay on an American Epidemic. By Arnie Grossman, Introduction by Gary Hart. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado (2006). An angry book by a leading Colorado anti-gun activist reveals how some persons drive themselves to rage because they greatly misunderstand gun laws.

The Drug War on Human Rights and Civil
Liberties. Occasional Paper # 8 from the
Liberal Institute of the
Friederich Naumann Foundation in Potsdam, Germany.
English full-text
in PDF. Alternate version in
HTML.

The Universal Right of Self-Defense, and the Auxiliary Right to Defensive Arms, in The Second Amendment And Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, And The American Constitution (Routledge: Kevin Yuill ed., 2017).

"Inadequate Law Enforcement Was a Death Sentence for Columbine Victims"
and "Stronger Gun Laws Would Not Have Presented the Columbine School Shooting," in The Columbine School Shooting. Part of the
Perspectives on Modern World History series. (Greenhaven Press, part of Gale/Cenage, 2012).

Note: The chapter titles in the above series
are written by the editors, and almost never are the original title of the
reprinted article. In some cases, the editor-written title may not
accurately express the precise meaning of the chapter.

Honors and Awards

Who's Who Lifetime Achievement. Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the West; Who's
Who in Emerging Leaders in America; Who's Who in American Law.

Defender of the Constitution, 2017. Second Amendment Foundation.

Global Leadership Award, 2014, Second Amendment Foundation.

Defender of Liberty, 2012, Second Amendment Foundation.

Scholar of the Year, 2009, Second Amendment Foundation.

Journalist of the Year, 2006, 2002, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Gun Rights Defender of the Year, 1999, Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil
Liberties, 1997, conferred by the Center for Independent Thought, for the book
No More Wacos.

Bill of Rights Award, 1997, Second Amendment Foundation.

James Madison Award, 1995 and 1989, Second Amendment Foundation.

Book of the Year, 1992, American Society of Criminology, Division of
International Criminology, for The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy.

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